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Monkey Business

May 30th, 2008 Comments(0)
SRB Picks of the Week 30 May 2008
:By Jeremy Rose

In this week’s SRB Picks: Was Shakespeare an Italian Jewess? Janet Frame and the Marx Brothers, and; the Charleston Heston of the motorcar Jeremy Clarkson at Britain’s premier literary fest. Read more »

Jewish Baghdad: A City Lost

May 29th, 2008 Comments(1)
Farewell Babylon: Coming of Age in Jewish Baghdad By Naim Kattan
Souvenir Press, $50. Reviewed by LEON BENBARUK

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Farewell Babylon is the translation from the original French book Adieu Babylone (1975) and tells of the writer’s journey through identity.
It’s a story about loss (leaving Baghdad) and discovery, about his Jewish friend Nessim in Baghdad and British colonial rule which sheds some light on today’s Iraq and the relationships between Arabs, Kurds, Bedouins, Assyrians, Armenians and Jews – and about Muslim domination by Sunnis and Shi-ites on the rest of society. Read more »

Writer Block Recomends The Net

May 28th, 2008 Comments(0)

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By Sally Conor

American writer Stefan Merrill Block believes that technology and the internet are completely changing the way young novelists are writing and structuring their work.
Block, 26, who made a flying visit to Auckland this week, says a whole generation of writers have been influenced by the development of word processing and this has led to a watershed moment in the history of literature. Read more »

Fisk Confirmed for Chch Writers Fest

May 28th, 2008 Comments(1)
PRESS RELEASE

Robert Fisk is among the twenty international and forty New Zealand writers who will converge on the Christchurch Town Hall from 5 – 7 September for The Press Christchurch Writers’ Festival 2008, an event which continues to grow in size and significance in New Zealand’s cultural landscape. Read more »

Poem of the Week: Le Temps

May 27th, 2008 Comments(0)

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Poem of the Week: Le Temps

From: Magnetic South By Sue Wootton

Steele Roberts, $25.

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Freedom from Our Social Prisons

May 27th, 2008 Comments(0)
By Anthony Ravlich

My book, ‘Freedom from our Social Prisons: the Rise of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights’, which aims to empower the poor and marginalized with a uniting belief system –core minimum obligations – is due to be released in June, 2008 (see below). Read more »

Mash and Grab

May 26th, 2008 Comments(0)

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Popular Potatoes by Simon & Alison Holst
HYNDMAN PUBLISHING, $25. Reviewed by KATHRYN HUTCHINSON

Potatoes, as you may well be aware, are good. This is not only because they are textually pleasing, tasty and of course psychologically satisfying. They are also good for you, at a physiological level. Read more »

Colonial Culture?

May 25th, 2008 Comments(0)
Facing the Music: Charles Baeyertz and the Triad, by Joanna Woods
Otago University Press, $45. Reviewed by JANE BLAIKIE

9781877372551.jpgThis thoroughly enjoyable biography springs from a period of New Zealand cultural history that’s been regarded with unease: colonial times.
Charles Baeyertz – musician, critic, writer and publisher of the Triad arts magazine – drives the narrative of Facing the Music in a vivid and engaging portrait of European New Zealand in the late 1800s into the twentieth century.
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Changes to Authors’ Fund welcomed

May 24th, 2008 Comments(0)

Government moves to restructure the former Authors’ Fund and �increase assistance� to� authors is great news, says Society of Authors’ President Paul Smith. Read more »

Ode to a Foreskin

May 23rd, 2008 Comments(1)
SRB Picks of the Week 23 May 08
:By Jeremy Rose

Collectors of obscure Wellington poetry collections may remember a book by Israeli historian Benny Morris’s father, Ya’acov. It was published shortly before the end of Ya’acov’s term as Israeli ambassador to New Zealand in the 1980s. Truth be told the verse wasn’t that memorable but it contained an ode to one of my school-mate’s foreskin that’s kind of hard to forget. Read more »

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